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Matt Blumberg
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman
Matt Blumberg founded Return Path in 1999 because he believed the world needed email to work better. Matt is passionate about enhancing the online relationship between email subscribers and marketers so that both sides of the equation benefit. It is with great pride that he has watched this initial creation grow to a company of 150 employees with the market leading brand, innovative products, and the email industry's most renowned experts.
Before Return Path, Matt ran marketing, product management, and the internet group for MovieFone, Inc. (later acquired by AOL). Prior to that he served as an associate with private equity firm General Atlantic Partners and was a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. He holds a B.A. from Princeton University.
You can learn much more about Matt by reading his email marketing and entrepreneurship blog Only Once -- one of the first CEO blogs on the Internet.
George Bilbrey
Co-Founder, President
George Bilbrey is the founder of the industry's first deliverability service provider, Assurance Systems, which merged with Return Path in 2003. He is a recognized expert on the subjects of email reputation and deliverability and is active in many industry organizations, including the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and the Online Trust Alliance (OTA). In his role as president of Return Path George is the driving force behind the ongoing innovation of our products and services.
Prior to Return Path, George served as Director of Product Management at Worldprints.com and as a partner in the telecommunications group at Mercer Management Consulting. He holds a B.A. in economics from Duke University, and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina.
You can learn much more about George by reading his email technology and entrepreneurship blog Monkey Mind Labs.
Jack Sinclair
Co-Founder, Chief Financial Officer
Jack Sinclair joined Matt Blumberg as a co-founder of Return Path in 1999. In his role as CFO, Jack is responsible for the company's day-to-day operating activities, technology, internal information architecture, and management of Return Path's financial systems. Prior to Return Path Jack worked at Stern Stewart & Co. and the Financial Resource Group providing corporate finance consulting and investment banking services to small and large corporations. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in finance.
Andy Sautins
Chief Technology Officer
Andy has over 15 years of experience leading high performing software development teams. Andy joined Return Path as the company's Chief Technology Officer after its merger with Veripost in 2001. In this role he is responsible for establishing Return Path's innovative technical vision and leading all aspects of our product development. Andy has also held senior technology positions at Affinia, Athenesoft, Inc. and Access Graphics. He holds a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Colorado.
Anita Absey
SVP, Global Sales & Service
Anita is a veteran of the interactive marketing industry and has built her experience leading successful teams at Acxiom, Abacus Direct and DoubleClick. A self-proclaimed "data junkie," Anita has helped hundreds of leading marketers integrate data and technology to build profitable marketing programs. Anita joined Return Path in 2003, and is the leader of our global sales, service and marketing teams, planning and implementing all sales, service and marketing activities in order to meet our goals for retention, growth and profitability. She holds a B.A. in economics from Fordham University.
Angela Baldonero
SVP, People & Client Success
As Senior Vice President of People and Client Success, Angela Baldonero is responsible for making Return Path the best place to work and the best company to work with in the industry. She does this by nurturing Return Path's most important assets -- its employees and its clients. Prior to Return Path, Angela spent seven years as the east coast Regional Director of People Innovation for Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants. She has performed pro-bono consulting work with The World Bank and Booz Allen Hamilton as well as volunteered with Dress for Success. Angela holds an M.S. in organizational development from American University and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia.
Tom Bartel
CIPP, Chief Privacy Officer
Tom Bartel helped to define email deliverability as a service when he co-founded Assurance Systems with George Bilbrey in 2002. He has been with Return Path since its acquisition of Assurance Systems in 2003 where he now leads the Return Path Certification Program, the most widely accepted email whitelist available today. He also serves as Chief Privacy Officer, ensuring Return Path and their clients understand and adhere to industry regulations and best practices. With long experience in email services and technology, Tom has held senior positions at Email Publishing, MessageMedia, and DoubleClick. He is certified by the IAPP as a Certified Information Privacy Professional and holds a B.A. in speech communications from Colorado State University.
Sam Masiello
General Manager for Anti-Phishing Services
Sam Masiello oversees Return Path's strategy for products aimed at keeping the email channel secure for consumers, corporations and Internet Service Providers. He also serves as the company's Chief Security Officer. Most recently, Sam served as Director of Messaging Security Research of McAfee's Global Threat Intelligence team. In that role he was in charge of research across the full spectrum of email-borne threats. This included identifying the latest email and internet threats, as well as predicting future threat trends, in order to safeguard the millions of businesses and individuals who rely on McAfee solutions. Sam's previous role was vice president of Information Security at MX Logic, which McAfee acquired in 2009. Sam is a highly sought-after expert, having been interviewed on radio and television, and quoted in publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, SC Magazine, MSNBC, FOX News and more. Earlier in his career, Sam held a variety of positions with Synacor, an ISP premium services provider, including project manager, software developer and manager of quality assurance. Masiello also served as a software developer for Client Logic, an outsourced services company. Masiello earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with honors from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Ken Takahashi
VP, Corporate Development
Ken Takahashi joined Return Path in 2006 to launch the company's international growth efforts and has since overseen the company's global channel partner business and was named Vice President of Corporate Development in 2010. His team is responsible for forging strategic relationships and developing opportunities for Return Path to expand into new products, geographies and market segments.
He joined Return Path from DoubleClick's email division (which was later acquired by Epsilon) where he served as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships responsible for global partnerships. He also ran the industry's first international email deliverability team located throughout North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. The start of his email industry tenure began at MessageMedia, an early era email service provider, over a decade ago. He has spent a majority of that time fighting spam and advocating on behalf of legitimate online marketing communities around the world.
Ken has been an active leader on the board of directors to the Online Trust Alliance, is a frequent industry speaker, editorial contributor, and advisor to companies in the email and interactive marketing space. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.
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